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The stylebook’s entry for gross domestic product now emphasizes that quarterly data are reported differently in different countries, so the methods being used should be made clear in each report we carry.

Gender bending

In attempts to sidestep the pronouns he, him and his, writers increasingly are using the gender-neutral plural pronouns they,them and their after singular nouns, to avoid seeming sexist. Instead, they seem illiterate.

Belabouring Briticisms

Britain’s Labour Party is rendered thus, in the British style, in our pages. As the stylebook also notes, we use European Aeronautic Defence & Space Co. But in most cases we use the generic American spellings for U.K. governmental agencies such as the Labor Department and the Defense Department. Philip Hammond, the defence secretary at home, is defense secretary to us.

But the harbor off Hong Kong is Victoria Harbour, as we now accept the Harbour spelling in place names.

North Korea’s supreme leader

We are joining the media majority by referring to North Korea’s leader as Kim Jong Un instead of Kim Jong Eun. Read More »